this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
697 points (97.0% liked)

Technology

73740 readers
4076 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

They think they can hire less SWE because of it. Though from my experience all benefits it gives are neutralized by mistakes or does. I have to pay more attention to what it produces to find bugs (and they are subtle, and even then successfully sneak them).

I also frequently notice that I actually can produce more concise code for my user case.

And it is plagiarizing (Microsoft apparently provides some legal protection against a lawsuit, but I don't know if that is for everyone).

A while ago I found a bit less popular code and it came with library. I didn't like their implementation so I started writing my own and copilot basically was suggesting the code from the library I tried to rewrite.